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Amazon Echo Review: Talking Helper Alexa Is No Match for Siri. The Virtual Assistant Plays DJ for Your Music, But Gets Lost on Other Basic Requests. Meet Alexa, Amazon's voice-activated virtual assistant who lives in the $200 Echo smart speaker. Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler puts her in the interview chair to find out what she can do.
Voice commands aside, as a $200 connected speakerâitâs $100 for Amazon Prime members for a limited timeâthe Echo is just OK. You can connect a phone, tablet or computer to the Echo via Bluetooth to play music from Pandora, iTunes or Spotify.he Echo is always on and waiting for someone to call out, âAlexa.â (If you live with a real Alexa, you can change the wake-up word to âAmazon.â). In my house, the Echo had one skill I loved: It is a voice-activated DJ.